dépravation
\de.pʁa.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dépravation” is uncommon French (frequency #57,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est dépravé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depravation · dépravation · French
dépravation · rank #57,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,232
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déplaisante
Nearest frequency peer: déplaisante (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dépravation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démolies
démolies
42,772 corpus weight
- déplaisante
déplaisante
42,770 corpus weight
- dépravation
dépravation
42,769 corpus weight
- déroutante
déroutante
42,768 corpus weight
- désarme
désarme
42,767 corpus weight
- désespérance
désespérance
42,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépravation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépravation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pʁa.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépravation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépravation is uncommon French at frequency #57,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pʁa.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dépravation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dépravation, spelled D-É-P-R-A-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est dépravé.
- 2Vice de quelqu'un, de quelque chose, qui a de mauvaises mœurs, qui est sans moralité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépravation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sieur Jean-Paul-Stanislas Marneffe appartenait à cette nature d’employés qui résiste à l’abrutissement par l’espèce de puissance que donne la dépravation.
Si c’est le désir d’animer votre monotone existence de jeune fille curieuse qui vous a mis la plume à la main, ceci n’a-t-il pas l’apparence d’une dépravation ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).